Indiana Fever (5-25) at Las Vegas Aces (12-18)

Date: Saturday, August 11, 2018
Time: 10:30 p.m. (EDT)
Site: Mandalay Bay Events Center
TV: none
Live Stream: WNBA League Pass

Probable Starters
Fever: F – Candice Dupree, F – Victoria Vivians, C – Natalie Achonwa, G – Cappie Pondexter, G – Erica Wheeler
Aces: F – Tamera Young, F – A’ja Wilson, C – Carolyn Swords, G – Kayla McBride, G – Kelsey Plum

The Indiana Fever travel towards the west coast to take on the Las Vegas Aces on Saturday night. Indiana is in search of its sixth win of the season after falling to the Phoenix Mercury 94-74 last night, while the Aces are coming off of a 89-73 loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday.

Kelsey Mitchell led all scorers with 20 points for Indiana in its loss to Phoenix. Rookie A’ja Wilson scored 18 points and grabbed six rebounds for the Aces Thursday night.

Injury Report
Guard Shenise Johnson (left knee ACL rehabilitation) remains out and will not play.

Storylines
• Indiana concludes a West Coast back-to-back weekend with Saturday night’s game in Sin City. It caps the first of two back-to-back weekends to close the season, playing Chicago in home (Saturday) and road (Sunday) games next weekend.

• The Fever are 2-2 since the All-Star Break. Indiana’s recent two-game win streak was its first since June 15 and 18, 2017, at home against Atlanta and at Chicago.

• Indiana trailed Phoenix by 14 points at halftime Friday night before surrendering a 36-point third quarter as the Mercury coasted to a 94-74 home win. Natalie Achonwa played just 10 minutes due to foul trouble, and she and Candice Dupree combined for an uncharacteristic eight points and six rebounds.

• Overshadowed by the Friday loss was a new WNBA record established by Indiana’s rookie tandem of Kelsey Mitchell and Victoria Vivians who now boast 123 3-pointers this season — the most by any rookie duo in league history. Mitchell’s 64 3-pointers now are fourth in league history by a rookie and Vivians’ 59 are sixth.

• With only one more 3-pointer from Vivians, the Fever will become the first WNBA team ever to have a pair of rookies both eclipse 60 3-point field goals.

• Candice Dupree is 11 points shy of becoming the sixth player in WNBA history with 6,000 career points. She is 19 from passing Lauren Jackson (6,007) as the eighth-leading scorer in league annals.

• With Indiana’s triumph over Dallas, the Fever have beaten the current No. 2 (Atlanta), No. 4 (Los Angeles), No. 6 (Minnesota) and No. 8 (Dallas) teams in the WNBA standings, with two of them on the road.

• All five Fever victories have come while holding opponents below 80 points. In 17 games since June 24, Indiana is 4-0 when opponents fail to reach 87 points, and 0-13 in all remaining games. In 17 games during that stretch, opponents topped 90 points eight times.

• Kelsey Mitchell had her sixth 20-point scoring game of the season, scoring exactly 20 with four 3-pointers against the Mercury. Also off the bench, Tiffany Mitchell matched a season-high 17 points and pulled down a career-high nine rebounds. Fellow reserve Stephanie Mavunga saw 15 minutes of action and matched her own season-best with six rebounds.